Your bike will take you anywhere. But what about your stuff?

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When it comes to switching from cars or
public transit to bicycling, actual pedaling is only half the battle.
Unless you’re funemployed in July and your only cargo is the precious
U-Lock in yo
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The moral crusade against fatties.

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Americans are disgustingly fat. I’m allowed to say so because not long ago, I was disgustingly fat.
Three years ago, I
weighed close to 300 pounds. I would like to tell you being a big, lazy
s
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A guide to alternative medicine for the bewildered.

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Why are Portlanders so drawn to therapies
outside the medical mainstream? Maybe it’s our general love of
deviance, or just because we’re broke, unemployed and can’t afford a
trip to Kaiser
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Toiling to find Portland’s Palace of Pee.

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Like so many others, this voyage of discovery begins with a game of Ms. Pac-Man.
I’d lost, again, and decided to regroup by ridding my body of the PBR
that was surely affecting my game. Instead
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The Huey comes in low out of the south, slinging 4,000 pounds of living-room decoration on its tow line.
Hovering 50 feet
above a patch of hard-packed dirt and gravel, the helicopter gently sets
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But for their usually portly paychecks,
it’d be almost tragic how the people behind our era’s greatest
advertising campaigns toil in obscurity despite the ubiquity of their
handiwork.
The
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Another Portlander’s view.

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Having read this week’s cover story (“The Portlandification of Brooklyn”, Willamette Week August 10th, 2011), which paints Brooklyn
as Portland-plus-money-and-ambition, you may be considering a
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